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Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of ”sloppy craft” – craft that is …

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular ”moment” in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing o …

The main themes of this volume are the identification of ”visions”, ”messages”, and ”meanings” in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these vis …

How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety of forms: drawings by hand and computer, …

With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Maker Movement of today. It off …

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its p …

"Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B–" by way of Robert Butler is a literary masterpiece that beckons readers into a compelling journey via history and human revel in. This inc …

Francis L. Hawks’s "The Adventures of Daniel Boone" is an interesting biographical tale about the well-known lifestyles and adventures of Daniel Boone, a crucial American frontiersman. Hawk …

This is a detailed study of the illustrations to Amir Khusrau”s Khamsah, in which twenty discourses are followed by a brief parable, and four romances. Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) lived the greater par …

”I imagine its being rediscovered with delight in some dusty book case a century hence and hailed as a classic” Spectator ”A wonderful book, a hymn to the pleasurable process of making things” Th …